Oddly, JVC did not sell any instruments under their own brand name in
America. However they did sell their KB series there rebanded as Lowrey - a
well known organ manufacturer. To make it clear these are JVC designed
instruments and manufactured by JVC in Japan, but the cases were branded as
Lowrey and Lowrey handled the marketing. In some countries, such as Australia
and England, instruments were sold under both brands concurrently. Apart from
the KB series, none of the other JVC instruments made it to the US.

Some of the rebrandings were straight copies, some had small
changes, while the V-105 had no direct equivalent. I believe in all cases the
Lowrey versions used their own fingering system for automatic cords rather than
JVC’s.

- There are other Lowrey portable keyboards with the V
prefix, but they were not made by JVC (I believe they were Hohner rebrandings),
and probably didn’t have the Micro Genie tag. The non-JVC models in the V
series include V40, V50, V70 and V130.
Likewise, there are other Lowrey models in the L/Carnival/Festival range that
JVC were not involved in.

- A fairly new discovery is that JVC manufactured some of Lowrey’s Genius range. To what degree,
if any, they were involved in the design of these instruments is unclear. More
research is under way!